Tutorial Introduction to Power Query

Power BI is the new self-service BI tools introduced by Microsoft. Power BI comes as part of Office 365 and Excel tools as some Add-Ins. Power Query is one of the main components of Power BI, and the functionality of Power Query is for self-service data transfer and ETL. In this blog post I’ll describe Read more about Tutorial Introduction to Power Query[…]

SSAS Processing Failure; OLE DB or ODBC error – 08001

Today I faced a new error type that I’d never seen before in my many years of experience with SSAS. It was one of the most weird errors that I’ve seen so far. let me explain that in a scenario; I had a SSAS multi-dimensional cube working and fully processing on the DEV server. then Read more about SSAS Processing Failure; OLE DB or ODBC error – 08001[…]

Master Data Services Software Requirements

  In this blog posts I explain what is required for master data services to be configured on a windows (server or client) machine. Required features would be listed and how to install would be discussed in detail. Master Data Services (MDS) is part of SQL Server 2008 R2 or higher. so you would require Read more about Master Data Services Software Requirements[…]